I figure it is time to talk about the members of the
Front Row and this is as good a time to start as any.

I first met Bruce Mitchell in 1985 at the comic book
store I was working for.This was the old Acme Comics store in downtown
Greensboro, a local hang out where I met a lot of other wrestling fans.

In those days, I guess I was the loudest guy many fans
had ever met. I was always talking about wrestling and went to all the
shows. One day this skinny guy kept jumping into my conversations asking
questions about who did what and how I knew that.

I will always remember the fact that this square was
wearing a Duke sweatshirt. I had never seen one before, so I figured he
was either misguided or retarded so I was nice to him and answered all
his questions.

Every week or so this same guy would show up to buy
comics and talk wrestling. I finally told him to join in the conversation
and a friend was made. It turns out this poor guy was living in Oxford
and then moved to Beckley, West Virginia and driving down every week to
get his books and talk graps. Some people are a lonesome lot so we kept
up the talk always about Mid- Atlantic Wrestling. Bruce was really dying
to sit on the front row. Any front row. He had never sat that close before
so I got him an extra ticket.

Well here we are at Wrestling night and Bruce comes
strolling in dressed in a suit. At that time, he was managing a Belk's
store and had driven in from West Virginia, 4 hours one way, and didn't
have time to change. I now knew he was really a fan.

The show started and Bruce was just blown away by the
hard-hitting action. Front Row Section D was the place to watch Wrestling.
The Wrestlers really loved the fans and the signs and man o man did we
get a great show every night, probably the best shows of the tour.

Anyway, Bruce turns and asks me,"Can the wrestlers
hear you when you yell at them?"

I said why don't you try it and find out.

Well, Bruce did not know that the match he was going
to try this was the Rock and Roll Express match. And I had been giving
Ricky and Robert Morton shit for years.

Those guys were THE hot faces in the promotion and
they were not used to being cheered against - it was the wrong thing for
Bruce to do. But a guy has to get experience in life so I let him have
his moment with the R and R.

Bruce stood up and yelled, "Hey Morton! You suck!"

A great moment in wrestling history, folks. Bruce Mitchell
learning the realities of the Front Row. Man, was the Rock and Roll waiting
for that one!

Ricky Morton runs across the ring like a madman and
yells at the top of his lungs, "Hey Four Eyes! I have turned down more
pussy in one day than you will get in your whole fucking life!"

Bruce is now the deer caught in the headlights and
he froze totally shocked at the heated reaction.

What Morton said was true. Hey, It was true with anyone
in the business for that matter. But that was not the issue. Morton was
attacking the Front Row and I could not stand for it.

So I yelled back, "Hey Morton! Are we talking legal
pussy here or any under aged teeny boppers in t-shirts and training bras
or any farm animals you might have banged on the way here?"

Morton went nuts.Gibson
even said something on that one. This was rare because I could never tell
where that guy was looking.

Bruce just turned, sat down and looked at me and said,
"Man, he really hates you!"

"Wait until you see Dusty," I said.

The rest of the time Morton ignored the match and yelled
bloody murder at us and we loved every minute of it. After the show was
over Bruce never missed a show and moved to Greensboro. I think it was
because of the wrestling. He would say a teaching job and The ACC Basketball.
Being the center of the universe, who are you going to believe?

The Front Row really started to take hold with more
of a regular cast of characters. Obin, Big Eddie, Bruce, KC O'Connor,
Russ, Angie, Lisa, Bud, Cheryl, Diamond Dan, Stamper, Harry, Doug and
a few others. This crew was the solid Front Row Section D that became
a Crockett TV backdrop for the next 6 years.